Professor. Irit Ben-Aharon is the Director of the Fishman Oncology Center at Rambam Health Care Campus and a principal investigator in the Faculty of Medicine in the Technion. 

Prof. Ben-Aharon's laboratory is located in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion. Her main research themes involve aspects of young cancer patients – a main theme is the toxic effects of anti-cancer treatments on fertility and blood vessels and the second is the pathogenesis of early-onset GI cancers. She is actively involved in clinical and translational research within international organizations in Europe and USA and leads the young-onset cancer task force in the GI group of the EORTC (European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer) and a faculty member of European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) gastrointestinal cancer (non-colorectal) group. She serves as the Editor in Chief of the new ESMO journal – ESMO Gastrointestinal Oncology. Prof. Ben-Aharon had been nominated as a senior member of the Israeli Health Basket Committee for 2020. She is a member of the Israeli 8400 healthtech network, and leads the early-career physician-scientist national program (MAVRI).